Sharp v. Mead

GALLAGHER, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from an' order overruling a plea of privilege. Appellees, T. W. Mead and L. W. Forrest, composing the firm of Mead & Forrest, sued appellant, Y. J. Sharp, in the district court of Hill county for actual and exemplary damages for the perpetration of an alleged fraud upon them by him in said county. Ap-pellees alleged, in substance, that appellant bought from them twenty cases of eggs at the agreed price of $6.25 per case: that said transaction was closed by the delivery by them of said eggs in return for a check drawn by appellant on a bank in Dallas…